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March 14th, 2016

(Image Link)Massage therapy may not heal all that ails you, but when it comes to relieving those sore and knotted muscles through manual manipulation, and thereby relieving stress, massage actually works.Our bodies carry...

Japan's Aichi prefecture has a job opening for six ninjas. Really. The position pays ¥180,000 ($1,600) a month, which isn’t much, but how many job openings are there for ninjas? Ninjas were 15th-century mercena...

(Photo: Elizabeth Esponnette)Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia! It's the classic Chia Pet home decoration made into a garment. Elizabeth Esponnette, a product design professor at the University of Oregon, made this living vest. She spread c...

Boudoir photography has been dominated by female models for far too long, and as George Costanza and Kramer showed us on Seinfeld 'dudeoir' photography can be just as scintillating and alluring as standard boudo...

Halo fans will love this, but you don’t have to be at all familiar with the game to follow it. Master Chief has been hit by a plasma grenade, and it’s lodged in his helmet! He has four seconds to live.[https:...

Carles and Jesus Bel are the designers behind Bel & Bel, a studio in Spain. Their design philosophy is centered around upcycling. They take old machines and parts, mostly from cars and scooters, and turn them into no...

[https://youtu.be/akb0kD7EHIk] (YouTube link)A couple of months ago, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir invited people to sing the Hallelujah Chorus and submit it through YouTube to be part of a virtual choir performance. Over...

It's easy to love sci-fi dystopian movies that bring us into all new terrible realities, without actually having to experience those realities for ourselves. If nothing else, they at least make us feel better about our o...

Busted! by Steven LefcourtThere was something strange in your neighborhood but now that spooky scumbag is sealed in a containment unit ready to be transported to the ectoplasmic big house. But what was that see thru sco...

Wearing new clothes for a while before washing them seems like a good way to keep that new clothes feel for longer, but after reading about all the yucky stuff found on some new clothes we may want to wash before wearing...

Fans of Star Trek know that the original series was produced on a shoestring budget. That’s what gave us futuristic devices like the transporter and the tricorder, as a box with a few buttons could do anyt...

Many actors, artists and musicians talk about their own death in a flippant way, thinking it makes them seem deep, nihilistic or otherwise above giving a damn about the Grim Reaper's approach.But acclaimed actor Oliver R...

If you’re feeling violent, but don’t want to be arrested, you can always watch a movie, or just skip watching an entire feature and see a rowdy bar fight on YouTube. Bar fights make great scenes in movies bec...

The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists currently rests at 3 minutes to midnight. Randall Munroe of the webcomic xkcd provides yet another argument against Daylight Saving Time. Leave your clocks...

A couple went on a 10-day vacation and hired a dog sitter to take care of Wilson. They received a video message each day from the sitter to let them know Wilson is alright.[https://youtu.be/ccLT_lr8QrY] (YouTube link)Red...

Female scientists have made some incredible contributions to our world, but to this day, they still get harassed by their male colleagues. While that's simply not cool, Emily Temple-Wood's reaction to the harassment is p...

We always celebrate the date on March 14, because it’s Pi Day -and the birthday of Albert Einstein, too! It’s a day to eat Pi and wear your Pi Day t-shirt. If you don’t have one, there are plenty to be...

Daniel LaRusso from The Karate KidCuyler Smith, an artist in California, creates trading cards for people you'd never expect, including atheltes from television and movies. He has framed copies on display at Gal...

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Castle Lovers by NaolitoMario was starting to suspect that Luigi wasn't being completely honest with him, and Princess Peach kept making excuses and breaking their dates, so Mario started doing a little digging. Now tha...

Two things are certain in a person's life -birth and death. But even though pregnancies are so frequent that literally every person alive has been through one, there's still a lot of things many people don't know about t...

Harshita Murudkar, Shivani Gulati, and Mehak Philip are students at the MIT Institute of Design in Pune, India. They took on a daunting challenge: to design and build a new type of chair in only 2 weeks. This is the marv...

Lelijke Eendje bought a dozen quail eggs at the grocery store and incubated them. One of them hatched! And now he has a pet quail named Albert. Now, this is in Europe, where eggs are not necessarily pasteurized or refrig...

(Photo of Lovato and Terrell via WUSA9)Phyliss Terrell, a great-grandmother in Washington, D.C., was trapped in her third-story apartment. She was getting ready to jump out the window when Truck 7 from the DC fire depart...

The one thing review sites like Yelp don't have enough of are reviews of places like jails and prisons, and perhaps a few courthouse reviews for good measure.Don't lawbreakers and future prisoners deserve to know what th...

This is Space Oddity, an anamorphic mural painted by Truly Design, an art firm in Turin, Italy. It sweeps over the walls of a hallway in the headquarters of the VF Corporation in Lugano, Switzerland.The mural is...